This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/13/2018
This lot features a vintage 8x10 black and white "Winchester '73" movie photo signed by both Jimmy Stewart and Shelly Winters in black marker. Winchester '73 was a 1950 American Western film starring James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea and Stephen McNally. The film is about the journey of a prized rifle from one ill-fated owner to another and a cowboy's search for a murderous fugitive. The movie features early film performances by Rock Hudson as an American Indian, Tony Curtis as a besieged cavalry trooper, and James Best. The film received a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for Best Written American Western. This is the first Western film collaboration between Anthony Mann and James Stewart. It was filmed in black and white. In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. Great combination of tough signatures from a significant film.
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